At 8:45 PM +0000 10/28/02, Matthew Zimmerman (via RT) wrote:
They're always going to be 8-bit bytes. (At least those bits that we need to determine endianness and size and such) It's the easiest way to figure out that information, as you don't have to worry about byteswapping and endianness with a single byte. (If anyone has a platform with a word size of more than 256 bytes, if you get me a working system I'm sure we can do something... :)..../disassemble.pl prints out information about the *size* of each piece of header information in a bytecode file, but doesn't actually print out the *values* of each parameter. This patch corrects that.Also: are the sizes of the initial header fields (wordsize, byteorder, major, minor, etc...) always going to be 8-bit bytes, or is that system-dependent? In other words, can I get the wordsize for a PBC file on all platforms by reading the first 8 bits or do I have to do something more complicated? (./pdd/parrotbyte.pod doesn't make it clear to me.)
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